From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. The moon is shown shaped like a cradle, which is rocking, and is labeled "The interplanetary age." Also shown are the earth and four other planets, including Saturn (with...

From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Menachem Begin is building a platform on a wooden structure that extends outward from planet Earth. The earth is seen as a globe with latitude and longitude lines, and other planets in...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam, hands on lapels and looking very pleased, is labeled, "Tremendous scientific achievements." He is standing in front of a chart with an upward-trend graph line that is...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Father Time (with his long beard and hour glass) stands under a sky filled with planets of the solar system. Before him is a counter (table, podium?) on which are a Roman style...

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A cow with an udder labeled "La. [Louisiana] milk prices" jumps over the moon. The earth is seen in the background, along with other planets and stars. The cartoon caption...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. At the bottom of the cartoon is a map of Louisiana, labeled "La. launch pad." In the background, the horizon shows the curve of the earth, and planets are shown in the sky. On...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Uncle Sam is dressed as an astronaut, and he holds up two small signs next to each other. One reads, "uccess of Apollo 7," without the "S." The other sign reads, "United States...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the center of the cartoon is the Earth in the sky, and a newspaper is on top of it. The headlines read, "National newspaper week...Helping keep everything in focus." Below...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A frog in a space suit is in a jump so high that he is in outer space, with planets in the background. The frog is holding a paper with the words, "Cost of living index," and...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Earth and Mars are shown against a backdrop of space and far distant planets and stars. Each planet has a face, and each has a hand holding a telescope up to an eye. They are...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Apollo 8 flies through space on its way from Earth to the moon. Many planets and other celestial bodies are shown against the expanse of space. In the upper foreground is a...

Oral history.; Interview conducted April 19, 2002, in the McCarley home in Port Gibson, Mississippi. McCarley was born October 19, 1919 in Port Gibson. She discusses growing up, sharecropping and tenancy, her education at Port Gibson High School...